Horsham win the Paul Watson Trophy !

Last night (7 May) Horsham visited Lewes to play the final of the Paul Watson trophy. This is a 4 board competition with a maximum Team total grading of 600 – and a Quickplay time limit. The gradings worked out practically identical,so a close result was likely.

Boards 2 & 3 were the first to finish after a couple of hours – and resulted in solid draws. Richard Moorhouse defended a ferocious attack to emerge a piece up and secured a welcome win. This left Peter Harbott, playing on top board against an old adversary, needing to get at least a draw for the result to go in our favour. With both players having only a couple of minutes left a frantic endgame ensued which Peter coolly avoided complications to agree a draw – and a win for Horsham.

1 169 Barry Maufe 0.5 0.5 Peter Harbott 168
2 152 James Pullan 0.5 0.5 Mick Harris 151
3 137 Richard Welford 0.5 0.5 Nick Warren 141
4 138 Matthew Britnell 0.0 1.0 Richard Moorhouse 138